Our family lived in Windsor Green from 1936 to 1965, when my mother moved to Mill Place. Us three kids had all left home long before then. My sister Betty to Aus. and my brother Tom and me to the RAF.

The racecourse and Ely woods (Leckwith woods we called it) were the Green's kids' playground after the war (I was 9 then). I often wondered what the "Tump" was in the middle, later finding out it was an excavated Roman Villa (it's even marked on the maps!).

Like Lorraine Hewitson I remember the "Dungeons". We played hide and seek in them - they were scary though. And the "Red Mine" (the old brick quarry fronting the woods), where we often almost killed ourselves climbing the vertical banks and falling off.

We used to watch the parachuting and the rugby on racecourse sometimes, but we preferred just messing around, camping out near the woods, having fun shooting arrows (or airguns) at birds (horrible little boys!), and climbing trees. And in Autumn, scrumping the Vicar's apples from his orchard behind St. Davids (?) Church.

Like a lot of the people on this site, I went to Canton High ('47 to '52) in Market Street, as did my brother and sister.

The school sports ground was where the present school is now, in Fairwater. I hated sports, and Mr. Smith (Old Smudge), who made us take freezing cold showers after Gym. But Elwyn-James the headmaster was OK, except if you were late and went to him for the cane. Happy days.

By the way, Heol-Y-Felin was the best roller-skate road in Ely, glass smooth tarmac and 'clackety' joints every 20 feet or so, BRILLIANT. Thanks for your web site and everybody for your memories.

PS Has anyone a Photo of the old house that stood on Fairwater Green opposite the Fairwater Inn? I'd love to have a copy. It's where I caught the bus to school almost every day for over five years.